Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Norway
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
hallo
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
takk
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
god natt
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
god morgen
Please
Молим (Molim)
Vær så snill
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
unnskyld
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
ha det
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Serbia
Sogn
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Norsk
French Name
serbe
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Serbisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Serbs
Norwegians
Origin
11th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Serbian and Norwegian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Serbian and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Norwegian language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Serbian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian Alphabets and Norwegian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Serbian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.